Musicians like Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and even the Wu-Tang Clan's GZA have been dubbed "genius," but none has the paperwork to justify the title like Corey Harris. The local blues musician learned Monday from the John D. and Catherine T.
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Boredom never stands a chance when L. Douglas Wilder is running the show, but his City Hall in Richmond has soared to new heights... or new lows, according to these stories in Style Weekly and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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The location of the new local weather TV station has been revealed; it can be found at Comcast cable channel 209 and digital channel 19.2. Offering a local weather forecast every 10 minutes, beginning at 2 minutes after every hour, the new 24-hour station also offers some news.
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Liz Seccuro blasts the notion that her attacker William Beebe looks like Johnny Depp, but she gets into the pairing pictures game by posting images on her blog of the Val Kilmer-starring-as-Jim Morrison v. Val Kilmer-today-with-spare-tire.
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Three former Department of Game and Inland Fisheries officials were indicted September 12 for misuse of public funds. Nelson County residents Lee and Paulette Albright played a role in the case through their persistent Freedom of Information Act requests to understand why a popular fish hatchery near their Montebello home had been closed. Michael G. Caison, Terry C. Bradbery and William L. Woodfin Jr. are accused of using state credit cards for purchases on a private trip to Africa in 2004.
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ON THIS WEEK'S COVER:
Unapologetic: Prosecutor defends his record while critics take aim
As Jim Camblos seeks a fifth consecutive term as the Albemarle County Commonwealth's attorney, both his critics and supporters speak out about some of his most controversial cases.
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On Saturday, the Charlottesville Community Design Center will unveil designs received as part of a national competition that was organized at the request of the City to generate ideas for the future development
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Update 9/21/07: Apparently, the reason that so many sexual assaults were reported to "other law enforcement agencies" is the result of the federal Jeanne Clery Act, which requires institutions to report crime statistics for offenses known not only to campus police but also to school officials and local police.
"The Clery Act recognizes that victims may not always report crimes to the
police," says S. Daniel Carter, Senior Vice President of Security On Campus, Inc.
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According to a questionnaire that Preservation Piedmont sent out to the seven candidates vying for three County Board of Supervisor seats, only one fully supports a proposed Historic Preservation Ordinance, which was requested almost seven years ago by the Supervisors as part of the County's Historic Preservation Plan, but has yet to be implemented.
Incumbent Lindsay Dorrier (D) was the only candidate to answer "yes" to all four questions regarding the Ordin
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Now that Democrats are rallying around former Governor Mark Warner's bid for the U.S. Senate in 2008, Republicans must decide on a candidate. But first, the decision on how to decide. State party officials tell D.C.
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Virginia's first proposed wind farm blew away some unhappy neighbors Friday when the Virginia Supreme Court dismissed their appeal of a lower court ruling.
Finding that the Highland County Circuit Court never should have allowed a trial, the state's highest court, in what will clearly be derided by project opponents as a technicality, rejected the appeal because the land
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At least one Cavalier is playing for a championship this football season. Capital One chose UVA's own "CavMan" as one of 12 college mascots in their annual "Mascot Open," an online round-robin competition for school spirit supremacy. Each week, the goateed guy will take on a different big-headed foe, and popular vote will determine who wins the face-off.
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Nathan Antonio Washington, the man accused of being the serial rapist, appeared via video feed in Charlottesville Circuit Court today to request a court-appointed lawyer.
Washington previously had been represented by Rhonda Quagliana, who will still represent him in a
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Buckingham County resident Tucker Adcock says that splitting an $87.5 million lottery prize means that he can now quit one of his three jobs. He's thusly quoted in an AP story following the announcement Thursday that he and his brother, Bernard, of Appomattox, bought one of the four winning tickets in the $300 million Mega Millions lottery.
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Some who saw William Beebe leave the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail this morning wondered if he'd had any inspiration for his "dramatic" makeover. The answer might lie in The Ninth Gate, a 1999 thriller directed by Roman Polanski and starring...
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Radio shakeup, What's a social norm at UVA?, Beebe gets early release
ON THIS WEEK'S COVER:
Wake up Call: Morning Show Meets Greasy Breakfast
Rob Schilling has left the building so that half of the "Big Greasy Breakfast," Rick Daniels, can join Jane Foy for AM radio's leading morning show.
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Contrary to the tacit claim of over 100 sit-in student protesters, it wasn't racism that generated the now-infamous "Ethopian Food Fight" cartoon, says a columnist this morning in the beleaguered Cavalier Daily.
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Joshua, the latest film from Dave Matthews and Coran Capshaw's ATO Pictures, wowed audiences this year at the Sundance Film Festival, and its producers inked a $4 million distribution deal with Fox Searchli
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Since Senator John Warner (R) announced he would not seek a sixth term as Virginia's senior member in the world's most deliberative body, Democrats from Alexandria to Bristol have been salivating at the thought former
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William N. Beebe, the man who pled guilty to sexual battery for his role in a 1984 UVA fraternity house assault, will be released from the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail at 8am on September 13, four days prior to his recently announced release date of September 17.
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For years the buzz has been that Crozet was about to get a grocery store, first a Food Lion and more recently a Harris Teeter.
Yesterday Great Eastern Management Company confirmed that it's breaking ground September 21 for a Harris Teeter on U.S.
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It was doing okay since reopening in early February, about six months after a truck struck its underside, but today, the bridge carrying Old Ivy Road over the Route 29/250 Bypass was hit again. VDOT reports that the culprit was a truck hauling construction equipment south toward Lynchburg.
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In what hopefully will be the endcap to the attacks downtown over the summer, three people were shot Sunday morning after an altercation outside Mono Loco.
Shots were fired in the parking lot between the restaurant and the former H&R Block on Water Street early Sunday morning, and the victims were rushed by ambulance to the UVA Hospital just before 3am.
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Former Governor Mark Warner refused to reveal to Darden students Friday whether he's running for the U.S. Senate– or his old job as governor. He did promise to announce his candidacy for one of those jobs at some point in the next week.
"I am right now in the process of trying to decide what I want to do," he said to the auditorium of dress shirts, name tags and loafers.
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An Ohio mother who accidentally left her toddler to die in an overheated car will not be prosecuted, according to ABC News. That's quite a contrast to the local case of death by hyperthermia, in which the mom– despite a lack of evidence of intentional infliction of harm– got hit with two felony charges in the death of her nine-month-old son.
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Morning drivers on Market Street got a high-level hand-waving today, as Charlottesville's police chief assumed the duty of directing traffic after an accident near Vinegar Hill Theatre.
"I do whatever I can to help," Chief Tim Longo says.
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Emerging from a Pavilion on the Lawn a little before 2pm today accompanied by his third wife, Jeanne Vander Myde, and a cluster of aides, Virginia Senator John Warner circled the Rotunda and descended the front steps to a podium where he announced his retirement after 30 years as a U.S. Senator, the second longest tenure in Virginia history. Senator Harry F.
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Mary Hanna, mother of Iraq war veteran and activist Evan Knappenberger, read a prepared statement from the front porch of her Woodbrook home Friday morning, speaking out against the practice of involuntary active service extensions for members of the military and throwing her support behind her son's cause.
"I need to put my voice next to his," Hanna said.
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4:11pm update: Former chair of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors and close Warner associate Forrest Marshall says the senator has discussed his future extensively with him over the last several months and that Warner himself probably doesn't know what he'll announce tomorrow.
"I've got a feeling he still i
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